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The attached Planning Commission staff report presents a more thorough discussion of the project, including: General Plan conformity, zoning and uses, Housing Site Development Standards and Design Guidelines conformity, site plan, traffic and circulation, parking, noise, grading and drainage, building design, signage, Universal Design, Green Building, Climate Action Plan, school impacts, landscaping, tree removal, affordable housing, Growth Management, and developable square footage in Hacienda. PUD FINDINGS Please refer to the attached Planning Commission staff report, pages 28-30, for a discussion of the considerations needed to approve the proposed PUD development plan. PUBLIC NOTICE Notices regarding the public hearing were mailed to the surrounding property owners and tenants within a 1,000-foot radius of the project site At the time this report was prepared staff had not received any additional comments or concerns. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT On January 4, 2012, the City Council certified a Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) and adopted the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Findings and a Statement of Overriding Considerations for the Housing Element update and Climate Action Plan General Plan Amendment and Rezonings. This SEIR was a supplement to the EIR prepared for the Pleasanton 2005-2025 General Plan which was certified in July 2009. The subject property was one of 21 potential housing sites analyzed in the SEIR. Up to 177 multi-family housing units were analyzed in the SEIR for this site. Under CEQA, once an EIR has been prepared for a project, the lead agency (in this case, the City) is not required to prepare a subsequent or supplemental EIR unless certain conditions are met as specified in CEQA. Staff believed that the conditions described in CEQA have not occurred and that a subsequent or supplemental EIR was not required for this project. CEQA further states that a lead agency shall prepare an addendum to a previously certified EIR if some changes or additions are necessary, but none of the conditions calling for the preparation of a subsequent EIR have occurred. Therefore, an addendum to the SEIR was prepared for this project. The analysis in the Addendum to the SEIR (Attachment 8, Exhibit E) determined that the proposed project will not trigger any new or more severe significant environmental impacts as compared to those analyzed in the context of the SEIR and confirmed that none of the conditions requiring the preparation of a subsequent or supplemental EIR occurred. Therefore, the previously prepared SEIR and Addendum to the SEIR, taken together, are determined to be adequate to serve as the environmental documentation for this project and satisfy all the requirements of CEQA. The SEIR for the Housing Element update included a Statement of Overriding Considerations for two significant and unavoidable impacts: development facilitated by Page 9 of 11